Shocking: Tens of dogs poisoned, torched by people in Hyderabad suburb

Hyderabad: Annoyed by the ‘nuisance’, a gated township welfare association in Hyderabad allegedly got several tens of stray dogs poisoned to death and caused disappearance of the carcasses. The inhuman deed is said to have taken place on the intervening night of October 5 and 6. The police got a post mortem conducted on the dogs on Tuesday and the report is awaited.

Animal rights activist Pravallika NS, who brought the issue to light through her complaint with the Ghatkesar police, alleged that more than 100 dogs were killed in a merciless manner by the colony residents association. However, Ghatkesar police inspector B Prakash, who is investigating the case, told Mirror, “We found some tens of dogs. We got the postmortem conducted today. The number and the manner in which they were killed will be known when the report is issued by the veterinary doctors in a day or two.”

According to Pravallika, the Sanskruthi Township Residents’ Welfare Association leaders hired professional animal killers from Kakinada and Ongole in Andhra Pradesh. They are said to have administered poison to the dogs on the night of October 5. The dogs struggled for life, vomiting and frothing. They collapsed one after the other in the area, as per the locals’ accounts.

In the wee hours of October 6, the residents’ association got garbage disposal trucks to make special trips to lift the dead dogs and dump them far away.

Moved by the killing of a large number of dogs, people living in the neighbourhood alerted the animal welfare activists. “By the time I arrived at the place, there was no evidence left. I lodged a complaint with the police”, Pravallika said.

However, the police said the residents welfare association refused to take any responsibility for the death of a large number of dogs. The residents informed the police that stray dogs were creating nuisance and were scaring them.